There are a couple of Arkham games better than this, but also a couple that are worse.

A long game of choose-your-own-chosen-one with high highs to balance the lows.

Server issues aside, Helldivers 2 is a bombastic, strategically engaging and funny squad shooter.

Inkle builds a weirdo computer for the ages, then let you use it to solve a beautifully-written mystery. Outstanding.

You can race as many as 24 human opponents online, and apart from some sporadic large-field stuttering issues, the action proved largely seamless. [Holiday 2008, p.70]

Despite somewhat samey missions and a flat protagonist, Khazan's combat and boss design are some of the best I've seen in a soulslike.

A smart and silly spin on 3D platformers and 2D classics that’s delightful from start to finish.

Brash, solid, run ‘n’ gun goofiness that’s a tad too underwrought to be truly brilliant.

Lies of P is a competent Soulslike if you can shrug off its flaws.

A mismatched mix of genres grafted onto a moving, beautifully presented story.

My problem with I-War 2 is its vertical learning curve...Combat is brutal and fleeting — some dogfights ended in my destruction just scant seconds after the first shot was fired.

New life for the Myst franchise, but the non-believers won't be convinced. [July 2001, p.62]

Who knew Sid Meier's protégés had a secret, and completely brilliant, Persona game in them?

Sworcery is worth a look for the presentation and music, but despite the upgrade to HD the mobile version is still the one to go for. [Aug 2012, p.77]

If you missed Col the first time around (and most of you probably did), now is an excellent chance to pick it up and dive into the colonial era. [Nov 2008, p.62]

Disappointing campaign aside, Steel Division: Normandy 44 is a compelling and challenging real-time wargame.

It captivates me because—imperfectly, impressionistically, and perhaps a little amorally—it lets me orchestrate the most titanic armed struggles in history, from the fussy economic details to the cut-and-thrust of mechanized warfare. There are other great strategic-level wargames out there. But I have never played anything like Hearts of Iron 4.

There's not another game quite like EU III out there. If it hooks you, it may be the only game you need this year. [Mar 2007, p.62]

A tense and spooky strategy roguelike that's as satisfying as it is harrowing.

The Prince's royale style-makers may have done their job, but the programmers needed to take another run at it. [March 2005, p.64]

Door Kickers is a difficult, rewarding puzzler so obsessed with its tactical ideas that it rejects all else​—which is probably for the best anyway.

There are some touches that rejuvenate the game we've been playing for 12 years. The new scoreboard is terrific. There's both a server browser and a party system, if you prefer that. There's a slider for scaling the UI.

Not the dramatic reinvention I expected, but this is tense and refined survival horror with a brilliantly bleak, grimy atmosphere.

A grimly beautiful collection of killer horror set-pieces, with some of the most memorably grotesque enemies in Resi history.

As mechanically polished as driving sims have ever been on PC. Stately and familiar, but finely crafted.

A chance for PC gamers to experience the best of teh lat generation of console games. [Dec 2000, p.156]

Squeezing the last possible drop of gaming goodness out of aging technology yields a tasty treat indeed. [Jan 2003, p.80]

Following a series high last year, F1 2018’s welcome additions don’t add up to a meaningfully fresh experience.